1.8 ▼ -18.2%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Walpole · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Walpole
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of the families in Walpole are couples without children, making it a place where smaller households are common. It is an area where many people live alone, with a typical home holding only 1.8 people.
1.8
▼ -18.2%
- 1.5–1.6: 490 areas
- 1.6–1.8: 168 areas
- 1.8–1.9: 642 areas
- 1.9–2.1: 816 areas
- 2.1–2.2: 1854 areas
- 2.2–2.4: 1319 areas
- 2.4–2.5: 2753 areas
- 2.5–2.7: 1349 areas
- 2.7–2.8: 2332 areas
- 2.8–3.0: 805 areas
- 3.0–3.1: 1044 areas
- 3.1–3.3: 289 areas
- 3.3–3.4: 386 areas
- 3.4–3.6: 110 areas
- 3.6–3.7: 85 areas
- 3.7–3.9: 40 areas
- 3.9–4.0: 258 areas
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Walpole — lower than 91% of areas.
| Walpole | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 6398, WA | 1.9 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, accounting for 41.2% of households, which is far above the figures for Western Australia and the nation. This helps explain why the typical home size of 1.8 people is well below the national average of 2.5.
41.2% ▲ +45.2%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.4%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 41.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Walpole, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 1 person (40%) and 3 people (7%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up 54.3% of families, while those with children account for 30.6%. One-parent families make up 11.6%, which is a little below the state and national figures.
11.6% ▲ +2.1%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Walpole, Couples without children is the majority at 55%; Couples with children is next at 31%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Walpole [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51510/walpole/topic/family-households